期刊名称：E-rea : Revue Électronique d’Études sur le Monde Anglophone
电子版ISSN：1638-1718
出版年度：2006
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：1
出版社：Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
摘要：By the close of the 1920s, the European mood had changed from the disenchantment and nihilism or apolitical hedonism that followed the Great War to a more serious engagement with a politics of crisis generated by economic collapse and the social and cultural disintegration which accompanied it. After the Wall Street Crash in October 1929 inaugurated the Depression years, it became increasingly difficult for writers in Britain and Europe to remain aloof from political concerns. Loyalties, whether to left or right, remained surprisingly fluid, however, until at least the triumph of Hitler in 1933. Politically naïve, writers often shifted allegiance from left to right or vice versa, convinced only that the status quo was uneasy, and would not last. Revolving commitment intellectually and morally, many also found that the idea of revolution was a revolving door through which they passed to emerge, at the end of the decade, confused, baffled, disenchanted, their convictions transformed or subverted by the whirligig of a rapidly changing history.
